We'd like to hear from
people working in the film industry about the lack of representation for female filmmakers on the 2018 shortlists so far, ahead of the Academy Award nominations on 23 January.
And then obviously the film makers,
the people working in the film industry who are interested in what games have to offer, I think we try to set up a lot of conversations that way.»
Not exact matches
It may be surprising for you to learn that
in a country with more than one billion
people, the fastest growing
film industry in the world, and a 10 billion rmb (1.5 billion usd) box office gross
in 2010 alone, there is hardly any professional
film criticism accessible to its public.When I say hardly any, I mean that there is an absence of professional
film critics who
work for major, national publications and media outlets, and thus a lack of regular
film reviews of new Chinese movies, at least for the mass audiences.
Making history, however, are the foreign
film «A Fantastic Woman» and feature documentary «Strong Island,» projects with transgender voices, making it quite possible that the
work of an openly trans
person could earn one of the
industry's top prizes
in March.
Although not quite as sharp and clever as the aforementioned Heckerling vehicle, Clueless, I Could Never Be Your Woman (its rather odd choice for a title is derived from a lyric to the 1997 White Town song, «Your Woman», covered by Tyler James
in 2005, the same year this was
filmed), is actually quite inventive
in its own fashion, with Heckerling drawing upon her own experience
in being an older woman
working in a youth - oriented
industry, making entertainment meant to appeal to
people about 30 years her junior.
Curzon Filmmakers Club is a series of specially priced screenings accessible to
people who
work in the
film industry.
Plus, having
worked in the action movie
industry in Hong Kong for the last 15 years as both an actor and martial arts choreographer on over 35
film and television productions afforded me not only the skill set to confidently
film a kung fu movie, I have also
worked with many
people who were close with Bruce and shared with me many of their anecdotes.